Article Guns now kill more children & young adults than car crashes

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INTRO: Editor’s Note (3/27/23): Today a shooter killed at least six people, including three children, at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn. This story from 2022 discusses how firearms have become the leading injury-related cause of death for children in the U.S.

For much of the past few decades motor vehicle crashes were the most common cause of death from injury—the leading cause of death in general—among children, teenagers and young adults in the U.S. But now a new analysis shows that, in recent years, guns have overtaken automotive crashes as the leading cause of injury-related death among people ages one through 24.

The switchover, which happened in 2017, stems from both a reduction in vehicle-related deaths and a grim uptick in gun-related fatalities. From 2000 to 2020, the number of firearm-related deaths in the one-to-24-year-old age group increased from 7.3 per 100,000 people to 10.28 per 100,000, age-adjusted data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal. During the same period, motor-vehicle-related deaths declined from 13.62 to 8.31 per 100,000... (MORE - details)

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...r-crashes/

INTRO: Editor’s Note (3/27/23): Today a shooter killed at least six people, including three children, at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn. This story from 2022 discusses how firearms have become the leading injury-related cause of death for children in the U.S. [...]

Audrey Hale, Nashville Covenant School shooting suspect: 5 fast facts you need to know
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While police have called the suspect a female and a woman, and used she/her pronouns during their first press conferences, on LinkedIn, Hale indicated the use of he/him pronouns. Nashville Police Chief John Drake said Hale does identify as transgender, per a later press conference.

Hale’s family and friends have not commented if Hale was transgender or had transitioned from female to male or just preferred he/him pronouns.

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Covenant School shooting updates: 3 children, 3 adults dead after intruder opens fire in Nashville; victims' names released
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covena...r-AA198wS3

Police initially identified the shooter as a female, but later said Hale was assigned female at birth and later identified as male.

Drake said officers found written material along with a map describing how the assault would unfold, as well as a plan to shoot up a different Nashville school that Hale scrapped because of “too much security.’’

Asked if there was a correlation between the shooter’s gender identity and the attack, Drake said: “There is some theory to that. We’re investigating all the leads and, once we know exactly, we’ll let you know.’’

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Radical leftist groups of '60s and '70s like the Symbionese Liberation Army used firearms, if not also recognized their need for them. Early Marxist movements knew that a socioeconomic revolution couldn't succeed unless the proletariat was armed.

Today that view has largely reversed due to the white proletariat now being regarded as hostile to the ambitions of the intellectual class, rather than remaining their 19th and early 20th-century tool for power acquisition. Perhaps Hale is an anomalous or atavistic event in the LGBT+ sphere harking back to those days when the revolution in general believed that violent coups were necessary (in contrast to the contemporary left approach of incremental political slash legislative conquest.)